Using tokens that provide 1/2 the password (the other half you memorize), and which changes every 1 min and is used to create an SSL tunnel to some known destination (i.e. your work or possibly home if you can afford the SSL gear on your end). Once you are tunneled into the remote destination you are surfing using that destination's Internet gateway, and since you are using an encrypted tunnel with 1 time password, problem somewhat solved.
Somewhat because every keystroke you type still gets logged. So if you have the patience get yourself a software keyboard installed on the remote workstation you are connected to. By this I mean a keyboard that shows up on the computer screen and you type by using the mouse to click the "keyboarD" buttons.
By far the easiest thing is to get a laptop and "borrow" some WiFi, then zero keyboard loggers. I would still use the above method, since the WiFi is probably not encrypted.
The basis of this plan is that if you spin the hard drives less time, in theory the components will last longer. Theoretically this sounds great, but in practice this is not true. Obviously these guys have never worked in a real data centre for a few years in a row. Where I work, we actually place bets with a bunch of co-workers as to how many hard drives we'll lose, everytime we have to shutdown and bring back up the data centre. We only end up doing this once, maybe twice a year. And note that these are planned graceful shutdowns. Out of about 1000 hard drives we have, we lose about 3 on average. The last time the Data Centre was shut down and brought back up, we lost 7 drives! Hard drives are designed to run for long periods of time. They were not designed to stop, start, stop, start. Try doing that with your car and see how long it lasts! I would bet money that the hard drives wouldn't last past 3 years... 5 if you're lucky with this plan. 1400 years is completely ridiculous. And that my friends is the difference between theory and practice. So as they say....
"In theory, practice is perfect; but in practice, it is often only theory".
Trying to create a network by installing hotspots every 150 feet or even every 1000 feet or so if you extend the transmission range over public spectrum where any Joe may interefere with it with their own cordless phone, microwave and/or home WiFi router was a silly endeavour.
Now doing the same thing with public spectrum WiMax or UltraWideBand could work for 2-4 years until the next wireless technology improves upon it. It might work because it can cover much greater distances, so less antennas, and better ones (MiMo) and most importantly, tower equipment is expensive enough (though not very), that the average home user isn't going to be able to afford a transmitter to compete with it.
There is one gotcha, and that is that sharing some 50 Mbits over 3-20 KM would never work because most Metro cities are too densely populated. Unless you use deep packet inspection at endpoints and allow only SMTP and true HTTP/s traffic and deny all else. South Korea has standardized on WiMax for wireless, not WIFi, and their network is mostly complete.
Ultimately, there is a reason why Telco's pay Billions for private spectrum, because there will be (in theory) zero interference, and zero competition - although Google changed the latter slightly, lately.
PS. If you want to learn way more on WiMax read the wikipedia page, it is very informative.
So the answer to sleep deprevation is to extend sleep deprevation? Brilliant (not). Those truckers that already spend 12 to 18 hours on the road may now be spending even longer periods thanks to blue light science. Hmmm...what could possibly go wrong?
100 Gbits/sec * 164 laser colours sent over a single pair of fibers = 16,400 Gbits/sec total throughput. 16,400 Gbits/sec = 16.4 Terabits/sec 16.4 Terabits/sec / 8 bits = 2.05 TeraBytes/sec
If you think about it, this is like shipping 2x 1Terabytes hard drives accross the Atlantic in 1 second.
Now if you want the SneakerNet comparison... or perhaps JetNet in this case.... Say you could fit 10,000 x 1TeraByte hard drives in a 747 air plane, and it takes you 6 hours to cross the Atlantic. 6 hours= 21600 seconds 10,000 hard drives / 21600 seconds = 2.16 Terabyte hard drives per second
So in short, they have been able to finally catch up with the Truckloads of DVDs or in this case JetLoads of Hard drives comparisons.Whoop-de-do! They would certainly fail the 50GB/disc Blue-Ray over Jet analysis though as you can fit more of those than hard drives.
On the plus side, you don't waste fuel and no jet lag, so I'm all for it! hehe
Yeah, but get ready for a *massive* culture shock. When you arrive there, it's like you landed on a different planet or went back in time 100 years in the urban cities and 200-300 years in the villages.
So... as they say here on slashdot: Goodluckwiththat!
The problem with Wake-On-LAN is that it is not Wake-On-WAN! Most enterprises these days do not have 1 IT staff located at every branch office, and WOL does not work over the WAN. So if you want to use such a technology it's got to be tweaked to work over the WAN.
Have any of you out there looked into this issue and come up with some work arounds to make the 'LAN' part work over the 'WAN'?
I predict we'll all have Internet in our pockets (yes the WHOLE Internet) by 2055, and I don't mean _access to_ the internet, I mean an entire mirror copy, that I can update daily via my WiFi 802.954z connection that has the range of our entire galaxy and works at speeds of SONet 768000/sec.... and yes it will run Linux!:P
1) Make it 90% electric and 10% biofuel. I only do not say 100% because in India, even in the most modern cities, power goes out like once every couple of weeks or more. 2) Make a 100% electric one and sell it in China!
If this is done successful (millions sold) in these 2 countries, we may be able to overcome a major environmental hurdle & TATA should deserve a Nobel for that.
3) Get the government to subsidize this thing big time. Bring the price down to 0.25 lahks (~$750) and you will see major adoption. $2500 still WAY too expensive in India 4) Make 100% of parts recyclable & provide locations to do this in major urban cities. That said, Indians are pretty good at using something until it is completely broken and unrepairable. Nearly all buses in Mumbai look like they are from pre-world war II ! 5) Make a door-less version & 100% electrical with "wind-up option" (in case electricity fails in city), and force by law diesel rickshaws to use this instead. Polution in cities will be cut back by 90% if you do this! 6) Make the horn 50% less loud (at least!). You almost need earplugs to drive around Indian cities. 7) Make damn well sure it is waterproof; as in, it can be submerssed in 4 feet of water (monsoon seasons) and not leak inside.
1. Market new product & advertize initial sale date 2. Do not reveal how many (hand fulls) of product units are available 3. On day of initial sale, reveal that product was sold out in 4 hours!!!! 4. Let lame media pick up stories 5. Enjoy free advertizement & viral marketing 6. Pick another date to release a few more units 7. PROFIT!!!!
Where hundreds of high ranking military, government & NASA staff went on national television (2001) to state that there is a cover up going on. Unfortunately, (coincidence??) 9/11 happened only a few months after this TV broadcast and all attention was diverted away from it.
Or Perhaps this Nov 12th, 2007 Larry King Live set of clips on UFOs where previous high ranking deniers at NASA and military are now coming forward saying that there really are UFOs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVoIT3KRYI
Or how about a separate major public disclosure occured just this week where 14 senior officials of various countries came forward to testify of their experiences on international TV and are pushing governments for full disclosure: (Official Website): http://www.freedomofinfo.org/national_press.htm Youtube Video clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCGO7Iser4g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vymLxCgGKM4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YPZAso2eSI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ttSXYwZsg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhqJZ47mf24&feature=related And lastly, there's always the video where prior astraunaults, Retired colonels, physicists are discussed & interviewed "the most accurate investigation of UFOs": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtVOhAl2ks
The truth is out there, but I wish they'd hurry the hell up and open this up to public. Adeptus
1. You won't get prosecuted for piracy 2. Our dollar is now worth more than the US dollar 3. We don't have perfect leaders, but most if not all are more intelligent than Bush 4. We still have some degree of privacy left (aka. our telcos dont spy on us) 5. We have beautiful natural wonders 6. We have much greater diversity of cultures, weather & landscapes. 7. Our beer is much better (& stronger) 8. You can throw a rock in urban cities and hit 3 starbuck locations. 9. We rule at ice hockey 10. You get to wear a tuque, pet a beaver, eat maple syrup, and say eh? instead of huh?
I could kind of see that in the US for the NSA... but the NSA isn't going to bust your door down because you downloaded a copyrighted album of Metalica. Allowing the RIAA to have access to all encryped backdoor traffic would never fly. 3 Examples:
1) For instance, a friend of mine uses encrypted VPNs to access his work's computer from home. He works for a stock market fund managing company... it would seriously impact their business if their employees could not VPN in from home.
2) What about IT people that have to troubleshoot company infrastructure at 2AM from home? If they have to drive 1 hour to work and do it in front of the servers, that's 1 more hour of unecessary downtime that business would experience.
3) What about joe-average who wants to do online banking from home? Why should the MAFIAA have access to his banking passwords?
Also quantum computers WILL have unbreakable encryption, because of the laws of quantum physics. I'm no physicist but the basis of the theory is that, that (at the quantum level) which is observed, is instantly altered. In other words, if you even try to look inside at the encryption key, it alters it, and it breaks the encrypted session. So you will know immediately if somebody is snooping. There is no way to 'tap' information.
Now you can say, they will outlaw Quantum computers for joe-average... and that might occur initially, but could only be a temporary measure. Just like how they initially outlawed the exportation of really fast 1 Ghz Sun computers to Asia... until it was deemed to be an exercise in futility. Eventually some genius in Russia, Romania, or some less anal country would 'invent' their own version of quantum computers (heck there's probably a.torrent, wikipedia article or Youtube video on how to make one by now) and then sell it on the black or white market... you know like how Canadians aren't allowed to buy TIVO but can buy it from the States, or people buying/installing mod chips in the gaming consoles that are probably made in China. etc.
Also public WiMAX or even WiFi version N which extend radius of transmission/reception significantly more than WiFi B/G will also allow any 'future illegal' encryption to be used relatively anonymously. There will ALWAYS be a way.
I just think that Quantum computing will be the LAST frontier... after that they are F***'ed as they can no long snoop or break your encryption, and that my friends may very well be the day that citizens (ignorant as they are) may actually have a chance that true freedom of speech!
Step 1. Encrypt all outbound traffic (hushmail, https, sftp, ssh, etc). Step 2. Use TOR to anonymize all your source/destinations Step 3. Simultaneously run encrypted torrent traffic (say 25% of all your bandwidth) to increase volumes of crap they have to sort through, making their costs increase. Step 4. Where possible borrow your neighbours unencrypted WiFi/WiMax connections to do your real encrypted/anonymous surfing.
2009... 100Gigabit Ethernet is standardized & sold to carrier backbones. 10G Ethernet becomes cheap & FTTH becomes more affordable. The crappiest computer you can buy now is a quad core with a combined core speed of 10Gigahertz speed. ------------ 2010... Their retort: Use Quantum computing to break your encryption. Buy kilometers of underground bases and install thousands of rows of racks filled with multi-terabyte hard drives to store it all. ------------ 2011... You upgrade your computer with a quantum chip and use unbreakable encryption. ---------- 2012... They are *$(*#ed and you WIN! All Internet is now encrypted and unbreakable and everyone has multi-terabyte hard drives and multi-hundred Megabit or gigabit speeds to home.
Privacy Policy or no privacy policy... if you have been surfing US sites in the past few years, the dept of Home Land Security tracked all (and I mean ALL) your information.
Did you not read the section that says that "Forced encryption" is not enough? Onion routing would be done in ADDITION to forced encryption.
Just to be clear, "forced encryption" to my understanding in utorrent = encrypt header + payload of each packet (except possibly source & destination IP addresses, but sections of the header that pertain to what above-TCP protocol is being used (i.e. torrent) would remain encrypted).
SO, in conclusion, forced encryption already includes end to end encryption, but onion routing (a la TOR) also encrypts the middle hops of the network path from source to destination. In other words, ISPs would not be able to know what the content of that 30% of upstream bandwidth is that you are donating, because it is encrypted from end to end.
Please do not confuse my using of the terminology with "onion routing" to mean that protocols other than torrent would use this technology. So no, your new torrent client would not be used as an exit point for people surfing porn or terrorists exchanging emails... however it could be used for torrents of any kind (including porn and how to make bomb documents) to be distributed.
Perhaps future versions could allow users to flag torrents on websites as porn, very illegal (i.e. terrorist bomb stuff), software-illegal, music-illegal, etc and the your configuration on your advanced torrent client could reject that type of traffic.
Onion Routing is not THAT complicated, given that it is obviously working for TOR quite well. Let's face it, as time goes by, the cat & mouse game between ISP's and advanced torrent users gets ever more complex.
With each bypass of an ISP's blocking/throttling mechanism complexity in methodology increases. In other words, it is inevitable that things will get more complicated on both sides; however, I think the torrent users could ultimately win - if the right advanced technologies are used. My definition of winning is that the ISP could no longer tell for sure that a user is doing torrent traffic or something else and therefore can not justify blocking/slowing down the traffic. This "win" may also be accelerated if other protocols (i.e. online gaming) also went all encrypted and behaved in similar ways to torrent traffic. I'm using gaming as an example because it is Legal & relatively high bandwidth... if you encrypt that, and make the protocol behave similar to the torrent protocol; what will the ISP's do then? They'll have a lot of angry customers if their games slow down to a crawl.
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right. Intelligence in the software directly translates into more user control and freedom. If this problem were simple to solve (from a torrent user's perspective) we'd already have a solution. Now it is up to people like the PirateBay and other open source developers who have the motivation, the know-how & the time/resources to help the rest of the torrent community.
My link to the freenet and the other programs was only to say that there are other ideas floating around out there, let's grab the best & most relevant ones and combine it, in an all-in-one highly advanced torrent protocol that is next to impossible for ISP's to throttle/block.
Hey Pirate Bay folks, here's my list of feature requests for the new version of your open source torrent protocol:
ONION ROUTING: 1) Implement Onion routing (aka: Tor / anonymize the sources) as a built in feature. 2) Onion Routing should, where possible, try to use exit points and middle points that have roughly the same amount of bandwidth as you, otherwise torrenting will not become a reality through Onion Routing. So some kind of peer bandwidth algorythm needs to be incorporated. 3) Onion routing should be on by default, and each user should also become an exit point and donate 30% of their bandwidth to this. This will greatly increase the number of exit routers & provide this as a defacto alternative, as opposed to just some obscure security feature for the 31337 (hackers & government homeland types). 4) Individual site upload ratios, should take into consideration that fact that you are an exit point and some portion of that 30% should be counted toward your uploaded bytes ratio (even if traffic is going to other sites)... in other words, help promote torrent security = get bonus points from private trackers.
SIMPLIFY ISP SHAPING BYPASS Background: Forcing protocol encryption isn't enough these days; some ISPs are shaping or even blocking torrent traffic by methods such as sending TCP RST packets to close a session, or their infrastructure auto-analyzes your encrypted traffic patters and if they are high bandwidth, very encrypted and on for long amounts of time to the same destination you get flagged & shapped (regardless of the fact that you could indeed be doing something legal)
1) There's a page on Wikipedia that lists all the "BAD ISPs" (http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs). This is a list of ISPs internationally that in one way or another shape your bitorrent traffic (Comcast anyone?). We need to be one step ahead of these ISPs and render their multi-million dollars worth of shaping infrastructure useless - sooner rather than later - sooner so that they can't make up for the ROI on all that gear they purchased. If the ROI fails, the next time engineering dept approach CEO for X dozens of millions more, they will get declined and we (torrent community) will win.
2) This site breaks down "throttling" into 5 different categories or ways in which the ISP can throttle you... each listing the bypass method. http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Avoid_traffic_shaping#Escalation_of_the_crypto_settings Note that level 5 (the most aggressive shaping method known so far) is only bypassable by a single client today (Azeurus), utorrent to my understanding can not bypass this.
Anyway my point with these above 2 items is that these facts need to be considered: 1. The number of ISPs throttling internationally is already large and growing larger 2. Your new torrent client needs to simplify bypassing these various levels of encryption so that it can be adopted by the masses. If it is not adopted by the masses (rendering ISP throttling useless), the ISPs will have won.
Man, that is a hella lot of trans Atlantic fiber... makes me wonder how much of it is just really different OC192+ Wavelengths down the same fiber/conduit.
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Using tokens that provide 1/2 the password (the other half you memorize), and which changes every 1 min and is used to create an SSL tunnel to some known destination (i.e. your work or possibly home if you can afford the SSL gear on your end). Once you are tunneled into the remote destination you are surfing using that destination's Internet gateway, and since you are using an encrypted tunnel with 1 time password, problem somewhat solved.
Somewhat because every keystroke you type still gets logged. So if you have the patience get yourself a software keyboard installed on the remote workstation you are connected to. By this I mean a keyboard that shows up on the computer screen and you type by using the mouse to click the "keyboarD" buttons.
By far the easiest thing is to get a laptop and "borrow" some WiFi, then zero keyboard loggers. I would still use the above method, since the WiFi is probably not encrypted.
The basis of this plan is that if you spin the hard drives less time, in theory the components will last longer. Theoretically this sounds great, but in practice this is not true. Obviously these guys have never worked in a real data centre for a few years in a row. Where I work, we actually place bets with a bunch of co-workers as to how many hard drives we'll lose, everytime we have to shutdown and bring back up the data centre. We only end up doing this once, maybe twice a year. And note that these are planned graceful shutdowns. Out of about 1000 hard drives we have, we lose about 3 on average. The last time the Data Centre was shut down and brought back up, we lost 7 drives! Hard drives are designed to run for long periods of time. They were not designed to stop, start, stop, start. Try doing that with your car and see how long it lasts! I would bet money that the hard drives wouldn't last past 3 years... 5 if you're lucky with this plan. 1400 years is completely ridiculous. And that my friends is the difference between theory and practice. So as they say....
"In theory, practice is perfect; but in practice, it is often only theory".
Adeptus
Trying to create a network by installing hotspots every 150 feet or even every 1000 feet or so if you extend the transmission range over public spectrum where any Joe may interefere with it with their own cordless phone, microwave and/or home WiFi router was a silly endeavour.
Now doing the same thing with public spectrum WiMax or UltraWideBand could work for 2-4 years until the next wireless technology improves upon it. It might work because it can cover much greater distances, so less antennas, and better ones (MiMo) and most importantly, tower equipment is expensive enough (though not very), that the average home user isn't going to be able to afford a transmitter to compete with it.
There is one gotcha, and that is that sharing some 50 Mbits over 3-20 KM would never work because most Metro cities are too densely populated. Unless you use deep packet inspection at endpoints and allow only SMTP and true HTTP/s traffic and deny all else. South Korea has standardized on WiMax for wireless, not WIFi, and their network is mostly complete.
Ultimately, there is a reason why Telco's pay Billions for private spectrum, because there will be (in theory) zero interference, and zero competition - although Google changed the latter slightly, lately.
PS. If you want to learn way more on WiMax read the wikipedia page, it is very informative.
So the answer to sleep deprevation is to extend sleep deprevation? Brilliant (not). Those truckers that already spend 12 to 18 hours on the road may now be spending even longer periods thanks to blue light science. Hmmm...what could possibly go wrong?
100 Gbits/sec * 164 laser colours sent over a single pair of fibers = 16,400 Gbits/sec total throughput. /sec
16,400 Gbits/sec = 16.4 Terabits/sec
16.4 Terabits/sec / 8 bits = 2.05 TeraBytes
If you think about it, this is like shipping 2x 1Terabytes hard drives accross the Atlantic in 1 second.
Now if you want the SneakerNet comparison... or perhaps JetNet in this case....
Say you could fit 10,000 x 1TeraByte hard drives in a 747 air plane, and it takes you 6 hours to cross the Atlantic.
6 hours= 21600 seconds
10,000 hard drives / 21600 seconds = 2.16 Terabyte hard drives per second
So in short, they have been able to finally catch up with the Truckloads of DVDs or in this case JetLoads of Hard drives comparisons.Whoop-de-do! They would certainly fail the 50GB/disc Blue-Ray over Jet analysis though as you can fit more of those than hard drives.
On the plus side, you don't waste fuel and no jet lag, so I'm all for it! hehe
Yeah, but get ready for a *massive* culture shock. When you arrive there, it's like you landed on a different planet or went back in time 100 years in the urban cities and 200-300 years in the villages.
So... as they say here on slashdot: Goodluckwiththat!
The problem with Wake-On-LAN is that it is not Wake-On-WAN!
Most enterprises these days do not have 1 IT staff located at every branch office, and WOL does not work over the WAN. So if you want to use such a technology it's got to be tweaked to work over the WAN.
Have any of you out there looked into this issue and come up with some work arounds to make the 'LAN' part work over the 'WAN'?
Thanks,
I predict we'll all have Internet in our pockets (yes the WHOLE Internet) by 2055, and I don't mean _access to_ the internet, I mean an entire mirror copy, that I can update daily via my WiFi 802.954z connection that has the range of our entire galaxy and works at speeds of SONet 768000/sec. ... and yes it will run Linux! :P
Suggestions for version 2.0:
1) Make it 90% electric and 10% biofuel. I only do not say 100% because in India, even in the most modern cities, power goes out like once every couple of weeks or more.
2) Make a 100% electric one and sell it in China!
If this is done successful (millions sold) in these 2 countries, we may be able to overcome a major environmental hurdle & TATA should deserve a Nobel for that.
3) Get the government to subsidize this thing big time. Bring the price down to 0.25 lahks (~$750) and you will see major adoption. $2500 still WAY too expensive in India
4) Make 100% of parts recyclable & provide locations to do this in major urban cities. That said, Indians are pretty good at using something until it is completely broken and unrepairable. Nearly all buses in Mumbai look like they are from pre-world war II !
5) Make a door-less version & 100% electrical with "wind-up option" (in case electricity fails in city), and force by law diesel rickshaws to use this instead. Polution in cities will be cut back by 90% if you do this!
6) Make the horn 50% less loud (at least!). You almost need earplugs to drive around Indian cities.
7) Make damn well sure it is waterproof; as in, it can be submerssed in 4 feet of water (monsoon seasons) and not leak inside.
Adeptus
1. Market new product & advertize initial sale date
2. Do not reveal how many (hand fulls) of product units are available
3. On day of initial sale, reveal that product was sold out in 4 hours!!!!
4. Let lame media pick up stories
5. Enjoy free advertizement & viral marketing
6. Pick another date to release a few more units
7. PROFIT!!!!
"Twenty years ago I was certain, now, not so much..."
Well perhaps you might reconsider after watching The Disclosure Project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk
Where hundreds of high ranking military, government & NASA staff went on national television (2001) to state that there is a cover up going on.
Unfortunately, (coincidence??) 9/11 happened only a few months after this TV broadcast and all attention was diverted away from it.
Or Perhaps this Nov 12th, 2007 Larry King Live set of clips on UFOs where previous high ranking deniers at NASA and military are now coming forward saying that there really are UFOs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVoIT3KRYI
Or how about a separate major public disclosure occured just this week where 14 senior officials of various countries came forward to testify of their experiences on international TV and are pushing governments for full disclosure: (Official Website): http://www.freedomofinfo.org/national_press.htm
Youtube Video clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCGO7Iser4g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vymLxCgGKM4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YPZAso2eSI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ttSXYwZsg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhqJZ47mf24&feature=related
And lastly, there's always the video where prior astraunaults, Retired colonels, physicists are discussed & interviewed "the most accurate investigation of UFOs": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtVOhAl2ks
The truth is out there, but I wish they'd hurry the hell up and open this up to public.
Adeptus
Reasons to move to Canada:
1. You won't get prosecuted for piracy
2. Our dollar is now worth more than the US dollar
3. We don't have perfect leaders, but most if not all are more intelligent than Bush
4. We still have some degree of privacy left (aka. our telcos dont spy on us)
5. We have beautiful natural wonders
6. We have much greater diversity of cultures, weather & landscapes.
7. Our beer is much better (& stronger)
8. You can throw a rock in urban cities and hit 3 starbuck locations.
9. We rule at ice hockey
10. You get to wear a tuque, pet a beaver, eat maple syrup, and say eh? instead of huh?
... I'd be changing carriers.
Google - we expect much better from $600/share.
1) The wikipedia article on Quantum Crytography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography
;-)
2) The Youtube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Quantum+Cryptography
3) The Quantum Computing torrents: http://btjunkie.org/search?q=Quantum+Computing
There you go Russia/Romania... Now please don't dissapoint come 2012
I could kind of see that in the US for the NSA... but the NSA isn't going to bust your door down because you downloaded a copyrighted album of Metalica. Allowing the RIAA to have access to all encryped backdoor traffic would never fly. 3 Examples:
.torrent, wikipedia article or Youtube video on how to make one by now) and then sell it on the black or white market... you know like how Canadians aren't allowed to buy TIVO but can buy it from the States, or people buying/installing mod chips in the gaming consoles that are probably made in China. etc.
1) For instance, a friend of mine uses encrypted VPNs to access his work's computer from home. He works for a stock market fund managing company... it would seriously impact their business if their employees could not VPN in from home.
2) What about IT people that have to troubleshoot company infrastructure at 2AM from home? If they have to drive 1 hour to work and do it in front of the servers, that's 1 more hour of unecessary downtime that business would experience.
3) What about joe-average who wants to do online banking from home? Why should the MAFIAA have access to his banking passwords?
Also quantum computers WILL have unbreakable encryption, because of the laws of quantum physics. I'm no physicist but the basis of the theory is that, that (at the quantum level) which is observed, is instantly altered. In other words, if you even try to look inside at the encryption key, it alters it, and it breaks the encrypted session. So you will know immediately if somebody is snooping. There is no way to 'tap' information.
Now you can say, they will outlaw Quantum computers for joe-average... and that might occur initially, but could only be a temporary measure. Just like how they initially outlawed the exportation of really fast 1 Ghz Sun computers to Asia... until it was deemed to be an exercise in futility. Eventually some genius in Russia, Romania, or some less anal country would 'invent' their own version of quantum computers (heck there's probably a
Also public WiMAX or even WiFi version N which extend radius of transmission/reception significantly more than WiFi B/G will also allow any 'future illegal' encryption to be used relatively anonymously. There will ALWAYS be a way.
I just think that Quantum computing will be the LAST frontier... after that they are F***'ed as they can no long snoop or break your encryption, and that my friends may very well be the day that citizens (ignorant as they are) may actually have a chance that true freedom of speech!
2007...
Step 1. Encrypt all outbound traffic (hushmail, https, sftp, ssh, etc).
Step 2. Use TOR to anonymize all your source/destinations
Step 3. Simultaneously run encrypted torrent traffic (say 25% of all your bandwidth) to increase volumes of crap they have to sort through, making their costs increase.
Step 4. Where possible borrow your neighbours unencrypted WiFi/WiMax connections to do your real encrypted/anonymous surfing.
2009... 100Gigabit Ethernet is standardized & sold to carrier backbones. 10G Ethernet becomes cheap & FTTH becomes more affordable. The crappiest computer you can buy now is a quad core with a combined core speed of 10Gigahertz speed.
------------
2010... Their retort: Use Quantum computing to break your encryption. Buy kilometers of underground bases and install thousands of rows of racks filled with multi-terabyte hard drives to store it all.
------------
2011... You upgrade your computer with a quantum chip and use unbreakable encryption.
----------
2012... They are *$(*#ed and you WIN! All Internet is now encrypted and unbreakable and everyone has multi-terabyte hard drives and multi-hundred Megabit or gigabit speeds to home.
Please start here...
International list of "Bad ISPs" that throttle torrent protocols, and god knows what else...
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs
Cheers,
ADeptus
Privacy Policy or no privacy policy... if you have been surfing US sites in the past few years, the dept of Home Land Security tracked all (and I mean ALL) your information.
References:
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-aQ_o_yi-s
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWW09xzJfS0
3) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm
4) http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/06/the_newbies_gui.html?entry_id=1510938
Did you not read the section that says that "Forced encryption" is not enough? Onion routing would be done in ADDITION to forced encryption.
Just to be clear, "forced encryption" to my understanding in utorrent = encrypt header + payload of each packet (except possibly source & destination IP addresses, but sections of the header that pertain to what above-TCP protocol is being used (i.e. torrent) would remain encrypted).
SO, in conclusion, forced encryption already includes end to end encryption, but onion routing (a la TOR) also encrypts the middle hops of the network path from source to destination. In other words, ISPs would not be able to know what the content of that 30% of upstream bandwidth is that you are donating, because it is encrypted from end to end.
Please do not confuse my using of the terminology with "onion routing" to mean that protocols other than torrent would use this technology. So no, your new torrent client would not be used as an exit point for people surfing porn or terrorists exchanging emails... however it could be used for torrents of any kind (including porn and how to make bomb documents) to be distributed.
Perhaps future versions could allow users to flag torrents on websites as porn, very illegal (i.e. terrorist bomb stuff), software-illegal, music-illegal, etc and the your configuration on your advanced torrent client could reject that type of traffic.
Cheers
Onion Routing is not THAT complicated, given that it is obviously working for TOR quite well. Let's face it, as time goes by, the cat & mouse game between ISP's and advanced torrent users gets ever more complex.
With each bypass of an ISP's blocking/throttling mechanism complexity in methodology increases. In other words, it is inevitable that things will get more complicated on both sides; however, I think the torrent users could ultimately win - if the right advanced technologies are used. My definition of winning is that the ISP could no longer tell for sure that a user is doing torrent traffic or something else and therefore can not justify blocking/slowing down the traffic. This "win" may also be accelerated if other protocols (i.e. online gaming) also went all encrypted and behaved in similar ways to torrent traffic. I'm using gaming as an example because it is Legal & relatively high bandwidth... if you encrypt that, and make the protocol behave similar to the torrent protocol; what will the ISP's do then? They'll have a lot of angry customers if their games slow down to a crawl.
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right. Intelligence in the software directly translates into more user control and freedom. If this problem were simple to solve (from a torrent user's perspective) we'd already have a solution. Now it is up to people like the PirateBay and other open source developers who have the motivation, the know-how & the time/resources to help the rest of the torrent community.
My link to the freenet and the other programs was only to say that there are other ideas floating around out there, let's grab the best & most relevant ones and combine it, in an all-in-one highly advanced torrent protocol that is next to impossible for ISP's to throttle/block.
Cheers,
Adeptus
Hey Pirate Bay folks, here's my list of feature requests for the new version of your open source torrent protocol:
ONION ROUTING:
1) Implement Onion routing (aka: Tor / anonymize the sources) as a built in feature.
2) Onion Routing should, where possible, try to use exit points and middle points that have roughly the same amount of bandwidth as you, otherwise torrenting will not become a reality through Onion Routing. So some kind of peer bandwidth algorythm needs to be incorporated.
3) Onion routing should be on by default, and each user should also become an exit point and donate 30% of their bandwidth to this. This will greatly increase the number of exit routers & provide this as a defacto alternative, as opposed to just some obscure security feature for the 31337 (hackers & government homeland types).
4) Individual site upload ratios, should take into consideration that fact that you are an exit point and some portion of that 30% should be counted toward your uploaded bytes ratio (even if traffic is going to other sites)... in other words, help promote torrent security = get bonus points from private trackers.
SIMPLIFY ISP SHAPING BYPASS
Background: Forcing protocol encryption isn't enough these days; some ISPs are shaping or even blocking torrent traffic by methods such as sending TCP RST packets to close a session, or their infrastructure auto-analyzes your encrypted traffic patters and if they are high bandwidth, very encrypted and on for long amounts of time to the same destination you get flagged & shapped (regardless of the fact that you could indeed be doing something legal)
1) There's a page on Wikipedia that lists all the "BAD ISPs" (http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs). This is a list of ISPs internationally that in one way or another shape your bitorrent traffic (Comcast anyone?). We need to be one step ahead of these ISPs and render their multi-million dollars worth of shaping infrastructure useless - sooner rather than later - sooner so that they can't make up for the ROI on all that gear they purchased. If the ROI fails, the next time engineering dept approach CEO for X dozens of millions more, they will get declined and we (torrent community) will win.
2) This site breaks down "throttling" into 5 different categories or ways in which the ISP can throttle you... each listing the bypass method.
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Avoid_traffic_shaping#Escalation_of_the_crypto_settings
Note that level 5 (the most aggressive shaping method known so far) is only bypassable by a single client today (Azeurus), utorrent to my understanding can not bypass this.
Anyway my point with these above 2 items is that these facts need to be considered:
1. The number of ISPs throttling internationally is already large and growing larger
2. Your new torrent client needs to simplify bypassing these various levels of encryption so that it can be adopted by the masses. If it is not adopted by the masses (rendering ISP throttling useless), the ISPs will have won.
I don't have time to type more, so please research what other clients out there (beyond just torrent) are doing and borrow ideas from them.
Here's a brief list of intelligent encryption/anonymous software out there to investigate:
RODI: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/01/1252232
MUTE: http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/
ANTS: http://antsp2p.sourceforge.net/
GNUnet: http://gnunet.org/
I2P: http://www.i2p.net/
FreeNet: http://freenetproject.org/
TOR: http://tor.eff.org/
THanks and good luck!
Would you mind quoting your sources?
Thanks.
That's not offtopic. It's a joke people! You know, "haha". If I had mod points, I'd give it an under rated point. :)
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Adeptus
Man, that is a hella lot of trans Atlantic fiber... makes me wonder how much of it is just really different OC192+ Wavelengths down the same fiber/conduit.